Which colleges have the "gunners" in their pre-med classes?

bluedevilmike
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:16:54 +0000

You have to remember that gunners are always relative. A kid with a 36 ACT isn’t going to be a gunner if his class averages a 35. A kid with a 33 ACT will seem like a gunner if his class averages a 24. At least, he’ll “break the curve” more dramatically.

As for ultracompetitive, antisocial behavior, that’s going to be more likely where the situation overall is poor. For example, if there’s a school which only gets a few premeds into medical school each year, it’s very likely that the premeds will all be stressed out and highly antisocial. If there’s a school where 90% of the premeds get in somewhere anyway, there’s no sense being antisocial about it.

For that reason, I think #31 is precisely backwards.